List of Maps, Tables, and Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Key Ottoman Turkish and Bulgarian Terms
Note on Names, Transliterations, and Dates
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Eastern Crisis, Russia’s “Civilizing Mission” in
the Balkans, and the Emergence of Eastern Rumelia
Chapter 2. Repatriation, Postwar Reconstruction, and the Limits of
Pluralism in Eastern Rumelia
Chapter 3. An Experiment in Pluralistic Governance: Emigration and
the Emergence of National Politics
Chapter 4. Anchoring Unified Bulgaria on “Muslim” Land
Chapter 5. Muslim Land vs. Bulgarian Labor: The Cost of Building a
Modern Capitalist Nation
Chapter 6. Land, Nation, Minority
Chapter 7. Debating Community and Citizenship
Conclusion
Select Bibliography
Index
Anna M. Mirkova is Assistant Professor of History at the Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.
"The author focuses on the judicial issues concerning land holdings
and transference during the period of the revived Bulgarian state,
especially in the ephemeral region of Eastern Rumelia, which is now
the southern area of Bulgaria. As a part of the issues of land
ownership transference, the author also examines the wider
consequences of the emigration of the Turkish and other Muslim
minorities of Bulgaria to Turkey. This is an excellent study for
those who wish to understand the legal processes by which the
Bulgarian nationalist order replaced the imperial Ottoman
establishment in the agricultural economy. Overall Mirkova
demonstrates the determination of the revived Bulgarian state to
maintain its authority over a system of land ownership based upon
law and to use this authority to develop or modernize the
agricultural segment of the economy, even if this law was not
always exercised fairly to Bulgaria’s Muslim minorities."
*Slavic Review*
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